got a ton of stuff done yesterday so all I need to do today is revise and finish my thesis draft (oh thatâs all is it)
listening to: motion sickness by phoebe bridgers
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got a ton of stuff done yesterday so all I need to do today is revise and finish my thesis draft (oh thatâs all is it)
listening to: motion sickness by phoebe bridgers

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99.9% of the people on this website are stupid
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dumbass you mean 0.1%
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i romanticize mundane things ab life too much i was watching a lecture for my animal behavior class and the prof mentioned that songbirds migrate at night guided in direction by the stars and i had to take a moment and pause the vid like oh songbirds look at the stars......
I think you are doing life the correct way my friend you only learn songbirds look at stars once after all
Could i please get a small mammal cursed bio fact if u have one
the grasshopper mouse of the southwestern United States looks like a standard house mouse but is almost entirely carnivorous and is known to kill and consume everything from less homicidal mice to goddamn rattlesnakes, which they kill by jumping onto the snakeâs back and gnawing through its spine
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16.03.2021 || Messy notes, an essay and a creative writing piece due soon and I just can't concentrate long enough these days. Can't I just have what they have?
Zoomester Studyblr Challenge Day 16 (Whatâs you go-to coffee/tea/beverage order?)
When I'm out and about I will almost invariably order an iced caramel macchiato. You cannot convince me there is a better option.
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wednesday, jan 6 ⢠sometimes your desk is messy, and that is ok
hereâs your smol reminder that it is okay to have a messy desk at times, and not everything is always as nice and clean as you may see on studyblr !! normalize the clutter and chaos of daily activity !! (oăť_ăť)ăâ hurrah !!
âIt [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of itâŚnow I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.â
â J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950. Reprinted in The Fall of Gondolin (via thebookwormunderground)

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24.03.21 - wednesday
Another day full of classes ~â
saturday, march 6 ⢠a february recap & march setup
my march bullet journal spread was inspired by my recent feb-cover-up situation đ because iâm actually quite liking the additional pOP! of color that i can add into my bujo with the random construction paper i have lying around uwu but ya dis an overview of my spreads that i made in a 10pm-dimly-lit-tired-trance last weekend hAHaha
also im not sure of where to take photos now in my new apt (i miss my old roomâs lighting during golden hour ft. the nice flowy curtains), but iâll figure it out this is small potatoes u know what iâm sayinâ
One of the ballsiest things Tolkien ever did was write 473k words about some hobbits called frodo, sam, merry, and pippin and then write in the appendices that their names are actually maura, ban, kali, and razal.Â
This just in: Eowyn and Eomerâs names actually start with the letter âL.â [source for other nerds]Â
#wait so they have hobbitish names and common names?
No, they have Westron names and English names.
What youâve got to understand is that everything Tolkien wrote was him pretending to merely translate ancient documents. He was writing as if the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were actually been written by Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam (or Bilba, Maura, and Ban) and he was just some random contemporary academic translating it all into English for us.Â
There are many languages in his books, but generally speaking, everything written in English in the books is a translation of the language âWestron.â Therefore any names that come from Westron, he translated. Names coming from other languages, like Sindarin, he left as they were. Why? IDK. Maybe because the stories are from a hobbit perspective and hobbits speak Westron, so he wanted the Westron parts to sound familiar and the other languages/names to remain foreign?Â
âBut Mirkwoodest!â you cry, âThe word âhobbitâ isnât an English word! And the names Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuckâ all sounds super weird and not like English at all!â
Psych! They are in English! (Or Old English, German, or Norse.) Once again you underestimate what a nerd Tolkien was. Let me break it down:Â
In Westron, hobbits are actually called âkuduk,â which means âhole-dweller,â so for an English translation, Tolkien called them âhobbitsâ which is a modernization of the Old English word âholbytlaâ which comes from âHolâ (hole) and âBytlaâ(builder).Â
âMauraâ is a Westron name which means âWise.â Weirdly enough, âFrodoâ is an actual Proto-Germanic name that actual people used to have and it means the same thing.Â
âBanazĂŽrâ is Westron for âhalf-wise, or simple.â In Proto Germanic, the prefix âSamâ means half, and wise is obviously a word we still use.Â
âRazanurâ means âTravelerâ or âStrangerâ which is also the meaning of the word âPeregrin(e)â This one is a twofer because âRazarâ means âa small red appleâ and in English so does âPippin.â
âKalimacâ apparently is a meaningless name in Westron, but the shortened form âKaliâ means âhappy,â so Jirt decided his nickname would be âMerryâ and chose the really obscure ancient Celtic name âMeriodocâ to match.Â
Jirt chose to leave âBilbaâ almost exactly the same in English, but he changed the ending to an âOâ because in Westron names ending in âaâ are masculine.Â
Iâm not going to go on and talk about the last names but those all have special meanings too (except TĂťk, which is too iconic to change more than the spelling of, apparently).Â
The Rohirrim were also Westron speakers first and foremost, so their names are also âtranslationsâ into Old English and Proto-Germanic words, i.e. âEowynâ is a combination of âEohâ (horse) and âWynnâ (joy/bliss).Â
âRohirrim/Rohanâ are Sindarin words, but in the books, they call themselves the âĂothĂŠodâ which is an Old English/Norse combo that means âhorse people.â Tolkien tells us in the âPeoples of Middle Earthâ that the actual Westron for âĂothĂŠodâ is LohtĂťr, which means that Eowyn and Eomerâs names, which come from the same root word, must also start with the letter L.Â
The names of all the elves, dwarves, Dunedain, and men from Gondor are not English translations, since they come from root words other than Westron.Â
The takeaway from this is that when a guy whose first real job was researching the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter âWâ writes a book, you can expect this kind of tomfoolery.
Notes: Sorry I said âRazalâ instead of âRazarâ in my original post Iâm a fraud.Â
Further Reading:Â
Rohirric , WestronÂ
Iâm having a stroke
Tolkien was the most extra son of a bitch my goodness
This is why C.S. Lewis wanted to punch Tolkien in the face sometimes.Â
In the great hierarchy of nerds, Tolkien remains at the very top.
No one can top Tolkien.
pretend? pretend to translate????
⌠who is Jirt?
Pharmacology is just chemistry and I hate it here...
Day 4- For my researching fellows, what are you researching on? If youâre not currently researching, what is the topic within your field that youâre most passionate about?
Iâm really interested in the biophysics of evolution, especially about the problems that arise because of the difference of speed between our social evolution and biological evolution.

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As you all may know, I am an Asian American, and the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the US is tragic and terrifying. A few years ago, my mother and I had unprovoked, racist threats spat at us while we were simply grocery shopping. They didnât care who we were as people- they just reduced us to our race. I want this space to be positive and encouraging for everyone, and thatâs not possible unless I make this space clearly anti-racist. I hope this comic is a hopeful reminder that weâre all able to make the world a better place together! I canât stop anything alone, but together, we can make a more caring society that welcomes and protects people of all races.Â
Day 20- What are three things that inspire you?
Nature
Any great historical or fictional figure
People who are honest, who continue being kind even when the world pushes them down.
(Bonus) imperfect, old, yellowish, dusty (and yet enduring) books, artifacts, ideas